LGF Archives: February 2003
Foggy Bottom Endorses Holocaust Denier
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 8:23:43 pm PST
Apparently the US State Department has no problem endorsing a Holocaust denier as the replacement for Yasser Arafat. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Friday that senior Palestinian official Mahmud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazin, would be acceptable to the United States ...
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Moammar Gadhafi, Superstar
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 7:50:40 pm PST
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is greeted by Italian tourists upon his arrival at his hotel at the Red Sea resort of Sahrm el-Sheik, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 28, 2003.
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A Warning from London
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 5:58:28 pm PST
From MEMRI, another warning of an imminent Al Qaeda attack: London Islamists Anticipate Large Operation. Today, the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that Islamist sources in London believe Al-Qa'ida is preparing "a large attack" on American targets that will coincide with the expected war on Iraq. These sources have ...
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All Hail the King
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 5:19:14 pm PST
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Europe Getting Too Fat
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 4:16:57 pm PST
The “overweight American” is a common theme of the Euro-small sausages who post sneering comments at LGF. If you’re a US citizen and you’ve traveled in Europe, you’ve heard the slurs; the “overweight” crack usually comes right after the condescending lecture about how many languages we don’t speak. But whaddaya know—the ...
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Palestinian Velvet
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:21:02 pm PST
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Get Out of Baghdad
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 9:59:44 am PST
The Pentagon has told Western journalists to get out of Baghdad now. "If there is military action, it is going to be a really, really bad place to be," said chief Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke.She and other Pentagon officials stopped short of urging news organizations to pull their 250 reporters ...
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Maoists for "Peace"
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 8:50:49 am PST
Speaking of Not In Our Name (see below), John Perazzo has a must-read column at FrontPage today exposing the true agenda of this so-called “anti-war” group: Maoists for Peace. The NION project was initiated by a man named C. Clark Kissinger, a longtime Maoist activist. Currently a member of the ...
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Nought In Our Brain
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 8:32:39 am PST
The “anti-war” group Not In Our Name has been having a bit of trouble with their voice mail; but just in case any of our readers are considering switching sides and would like more information from them, BigWig has found another phone number: Rumor has it that the Not In ...
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The Present Farce
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 8:02:38 am PST
Don’t miss Victor Davis Hanson’s column today: The Present Farce. The world, not America, has gone off the deep end — just as it did some 70 years ago when faced with similar choices between cheap rhetoric and real sacrifice. And so just as the tragedy of Pearl Harbor for ...
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A Costly Charade
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 7:53:21 am PST
Charles Krauthammer writes about the United Nations theater of the absurd and France’s craven obstructionism, and his ideas for a “proportionate response:” A Costly Charade At the U.N. That is a serious challenge. It requires a serious response. We need to demonstrate that there is a price to be paid ...
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The Idiotarian Chorus
Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 6:57:57 am PST
I don’t expect anything better than this from Russell Simmons, who has always been a moron. Asserting that the loose coalition -- called Musicians United to Win Without War -- is joining a growing chorus of protest against war with Iraq, Def Jam Recordings founder Russell Simmons promised a mobilization ...
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Nervous Weasels
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 6:05:14 pm PST
Signs of nervousness among the weasels: Concern grows in Chirac camp. (Hat tip: Elizabeth.) Support for President Jacques Chirac's diplomatic war with Washington appeared to be cracking among some of his supporters yesterday, with politicians and newspapers voicing concern about the damage to bilateral ties.A growing band of supporters within ...
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Uncle Monster
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 4:47:12 pm PST
Another scene from yesterday’s huge anti-American demonstration in Cairo, Egypt. This is what we get for $2 billion a year.
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The Other Truth
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 4:33:06 pm PST
Five IDF reservists have filed a libel suit against the director of the film “Jenin, Jenin,” the latest attempt to revive the Big Arab Lie of the Jenin “massacre.” "The film portrays itself as a documentary, and presents so-called testimonies and facts," the reservists charged in their lawsuit. The soldiers ...
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Trouble Down Under
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 4:11:29 pm PST
Young Australian aborigines are converting to Islam in increasing numbers; UK’s Independent says they’re doing it to seek empowerment. Khalid, who converted to Islam more than a decade ago while in prison, said: "Wherever you are, Osama bin Laden, I love you, brother, and I pray for you, because to ...
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Arafish is Loaded
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 2:10:58 pm PST
Yasser Arafish makes Forbes Magazine’s list of the richest despots, with an estimated worth of $300 million. This makes him richer than Fidel Castro ($110 million) but not in the same neighborhood with Saddam Hussein ($2 billion). (Hat tip: Aquinas.)
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Apolitical Nation Restoration
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:56:47 am PST
Federal agents raided the offices of the Islamic Assembly of North America in Ann Arbor, Michigan yesterday, although no one from the organization is under arrest (yet): Feds raid Muslim charity. Local Muslim groups are defending the Islamic Assembly, of course: Nazih Hassan, head of the Muslim Community Association of ...
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Death of an Illusion
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:05:03 am PST
President Bush gave a tremendously important speech last night at the American Enterprise Institute; here’s the transcript at the White House. David Frum identifies the key change in policy signaled by the speech: If the speech carried a title, it might have been called “Death of an Illusion.” Since World ...
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RIP, Fred Rogers
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 9:03:34 am PST
He was always there, smiling and singing, often parodied by adult comedians—but he wasn’t doing it for the adults, was he? Rest in peace, Mister Rogers.
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Egyptian Anti-War Jihadis
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 8:54:23 am PST
In Egypt, recipient of two billion United States dollars every year, tens of thousands of people filled a stadium for what the Associated Press called an “anti-war demonstration.” Right. And the guy wearing a terrorist head rag and a “Jihad Is The Language They Understand!” sweatshirt and waving the Iraqi flag ...
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Self Determination
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 8:30:58 am PST
Dr. Bala Ambati says the Palestinians have lost the sympathy of Americans with their rejectionist campaign of terrorism—and they don’t deserve self-determination.
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Peace Creep Payback
Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 7:55:12 am PST
BigWig daydreams about a little payback for the annoying fools who jammed Senate phone lines in a time of war: Suppose for a moment that war supporters just spontaneously decide to call Lynn Erskine, the listed contact for Win Without War, at her phone number, which by the way is ...
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The Case Against Palestine
Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 6:07:18 pm PST
Joseph Alexander Norland has put together an exhaustively researched and thoroughly compelling argument for opposing the creation of a Palestinian state; part 23 of his series (the final installment, with links to the other 22) is here.
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Moussaoui Raves
Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 5:32:27 pm PST
Accused September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui (who is, by the way, French) wants to torture U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. Would counsel be prepared to stipulate that Mr. Moussaoui has moonbats in his belfry?
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Peace Creeps Annoying Again
Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 5:05:25 pm PST
Like a flock of brainless parrots squawking repetitively, a “virtual protest” organized by still another murky “anti-war” group called the Win Without War Coalition tied up Senate phone lines today for several hours. Here’s an excellent antidote for this annoying foolishness; an article by an Iraqi American who has some pointed ...
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The Train of Death
Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 1:43:28 pm PST
Special Alert at MEMRI: a warning from an Islamist web site about an imminent Al Qaeda attack inside the US—apparently within ten days. "The operations have already been set and the lions have taken their positions and everything is complete. They are only waiting for permission from the heroic commander.""Whatever ...
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IAF Rescues Turks
Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:53:53 pm PST
Yesterday the Israeli Air Force took a break from its <channel name="Hanan Ashrawi"> relentless campaign of genocide and random murder against innocent peace-loving Palestinians </channel>, to rescue a group of Turkish sailors from their sinking cargo ship.
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Candygram from Arafish...
Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:47:19 am PST
"Any kind of support and assistance from you in these difficult times will enable us to continue our persistence and resistance until we put an end to the occupation, in all its manifestations, of our holy Al-Quds [Jerusalem] and the Islamic and Christian holy shrines, and exercise our legal ...
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Anti-Semitism at Yale
Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:05:33 am PST
Nutbar poet Amiri Baraka was recently invited to speak at Yale, where he read his sick poem “Somebody Blew Up America” and according to the LGF reader who emailed us, “argued point-blank in his subsequent speech that Israel knew about and was complicit in the attacks of September 11th, garnering ...
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A Moderate Holocaust Denier
Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 9:43:03 am PST
Yasser Arafat’s right-hand man Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, is often described as a “moderate” Palestinian leader. European Union windbags recently praised Arafat’s proposal to appoint him as the Palestinian prime minister puppethead. He has described the stupidfada as “a mistake” and called for a stop to suicide ...
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9/11 Mysteries
Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 8:06:45 am PST
New details about the September 11 conspirators in Hamburg Germany reveal that the plot was much more extensive than previously believed. (Hat tip: dennisw.) At least five and possibly seven presumed al-Qaida operatives appear to have fled Hamburg in the days before Sept. 11, tracing a hurried route through Turkey, ...
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War for Peace
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 5:23:35 pm PST
José Ramos-Horta, East Timor's minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, knows the feeling of the dictator’s boot on his neck. And he knows what it takes to remove it: War for Peace? It Worked in My Country. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) The antiwar demonstrations are truly noble. I know that ...
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No Weasels Allowed
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 4:37:55 pm PST
Aage Bjerre has three rules for dining at his pizzeria on the Danish island of Fanoe: No dogs. No Germans. No French. (Hat tip: PDM.) "Hadn't the United States helped Europe in defeating Germany, there would have been photos of Adolf Hitler hanging on the walls around here," he said, ...
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Nigeria Reports Missing Nuclear Material
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 4:18:47 pm PST
Nigeria has reported an unexplained loss of an unspecified amount of an unnamed nuclear material, from their “oil industry.” "We have ... informed the International Atomic Energy Agency in case somebody stole it and wants to take it outside Nigeria," Shams Elegba, head of Nigeria's nuclear regulatory body, told The ...
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Outrage of the Day
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 1:51:23 pm PST
An utterly outrageous story at Winds of Change: Teachers Harassing Soldiers' Children. The people doing this are truly the lowest scum of the earth. Alan Grover, WABI-TV: "What the kids are facing is hearing that [from Principals, Teachers and/or Guidance Counsellors] their mother or father is a bad person for ...
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This Charade is Getting Old
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:45:06 pm PST
Saddam is in the “retreat” part of his cheat/retreat cycle, and hey! Whaddaya know! He “found” another CBW bomb in the pocket of an old pair of trousers! Blix the wimp is issuing the standard noises of approval. UNITED NATIONS - The chief U.N. weapons inspector said Tuesday that Baghdad ...
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Moore: a BIG Hit in Britain
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:02:21 pm PST
In an award ceremony presided over by Saddam Hussein’s poodle Tony Benn, Michael Moore’s idiotarian masterwork Stupid White Men has won the British Book Award.
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Al-Arian’s Academic Apologists
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:25:58 am PST
Martin Kramer is doing a great job keeping track of terror suspect Sami al-Arian’s many academic apologists, some of whom are still supporting al-Arian without reservations. One of the scholars most thoroughly duped by Sami Al-Arian and his gang (see Friday's posting) is Charles Butterworth, a specialist in medieval Islamic ...
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Al-Arian Stays in Jail
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:07:16 am PST
Suspected terror kingpin Sami al-Arian was denied bail today. Outside the Tampa courthouse Tuesday, throngs of people milled about in support of Al-Arian, chantingfor his release. Local police and federal marshals were also present to keep order."He is very strong spiritually," Al-Arian's wife, Nala, told Fox News. "He is praying ...
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David Pryce-Jones on Iraq
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 9:25:18 am PST
Bill Steigerwald interviews author David Pryce-Jones: We shall be seen as liberators. Q: Do you buy any of the anti-war arguments at all? A: No, I don’t. It seems to me there is a flux in the international situation at the moment — everything is open. The reason for that ...
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Confidence
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 8:48:44 am PST
Another great essay from Bill Whittle: Confidence. Set aside some time to follow it to its conclusion; it’s well worth it. Bill really wants to be a Horseman of the Ablogacalypso too; at this rate we’re going to have a Cavalry soon, with horsemen named Hangnail, Late Charges, and Spam.
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Bali, 9/11: Collateral Damage
Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 1:24:35 am PST
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad describes himself as a “moderate Muslim.” Ladies and gentlemen, here is the voice of moderate Islam, glorifying jihad against the West and spewing irrational anti-Semitism. He slammed Israel and Western nations for causing a global upsurge in terrorism, saying religious extremists were only reacting to ...
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Ladies' Night Over Afghanistan
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 8:28:42 pm PST
This is why we’re going to triumph over the Islamozoids: Ladies’ night over Afghanistan. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) Early on Jan. 31, a KC-135 Stratotanker took off from Ganci Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, carrying more than 180,000 pounds of fuel and an all-female crew — the pilots, a navigator and a ...
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Taliban Kung Fu
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 7:12:26 pm PST
A Taliban Kung Fu champion with links to Mullah Omar has been granted asylum in Britain. Honest. (Hat tip: Brenda W.) A FORMER Taliban government official with links to Mullah Mohammed Omar has been living in Britain for almost two years after being granted asylum by the Home Office. Mohammad ...
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The Anti-Ikes
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 5:46:23 pm PST
A great Peggy Noonan essay on the differences between President Eisenhower’s reaction to JFK’s Bay of Pigs fiasco and President Carter’s disgraceful digs at President Bush, between then and now, between patriotism and whatever is driving the 2002 Fiskie Award winner: The Anti-Ikes. ... the most important backing Kennedy needed ...
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The Political Problem of Islam
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 2:09:17 pm PST
The latest edition of the Intercollegiate Review has a terrific article by British philosopher Roger Scruton, a clear, concise explanation of Islamic politics (or the lack thereof) and shari'a (Islamic law): The Political Problem of Islam. (It’s a 15-page PDF file that I downloaded over a week ago, but finally ...
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Saddam Will Never Disarm
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:29:00 am PST
Distinguished author William Shawcross explains the clear and simple reasons why Saddam will never disarm. (Hat tip: Joel, who says it will be interesting to see the idiotarians attempt to discredit someone with Shawcross’s credentials. My prediction: they’ll ignore him.) Saddam's obsession with his WMD has deep roots at home ...
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Arnold de Horshac
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:02:46 am PST
James Lileks pegs the laff-o-meter today, with a withering evisceration of a New York Times op-ed by moonbat French “intellectual” Régis DeBray.
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Arab Nazism: Then and Now
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 9:45:56 am PST
An interesting piece by Michael J. Martin on the historical and ideological bonds between radical Islam and National Socialism: Arab Nazism: Then and Now. "There were Muslims, especially in the later phases of World War II, in the service of the SS, such as those recruited in Bosnia and in ...
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Idiotarian, Thy Name is Max
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 9:10:32 am PST
Bill Quick has a copy of MaxFreak’s hilariously inept and leaden response to the “Four Horsemen” poster contest—nothing more than a relabeled rip-off of Sean Kirby’s design. Notice how Sawicky actually erased the name of Little Green Footballs from his unoriginal effort. “Mommy, mommy, make the bad web site go ...
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Terrorist Profs
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 8:07:15 am PST
Daniel Pipes points out that three of the eight terror suspects indicted along with Sami al-Arian are academic specialists on Middle Eastern and Islamic subjects: Terrorist Profs. All three alleged terrorists succeeded in talking the academic talk, fooling nearly everyone. Shallah wrote in 1993, in his capacity as director of ...
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A Year Early
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 2:17:47 am PST
In the always loveable Guardian, Martin Woollacott pooh poohs the terrorist threat, implying that the United States is imagining (or inventing) the whole thing: The greatest risk to the US is its own imagination. And as if to show how little regard he has for America, he gets a rather ...
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Mahathir Mouths Off
Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 2:03:15 am PST
The prime minister of Malaysia proves again that hysterical paranoia and hatred is not just an Arab thing: Malaysia Leader Slams U.S. on Iraq Crisis. "No single nation should be allowed to police the world," he said, in a clear jab at the United States. Mahathir has been an outspoken ...
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Swiss Neutrality
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 6:00:39 pm PST
Switzerland has refused to let US war planes use Swiss airspace for military missions against Iraq. The little cartoon devil on my left shoulder asks, “What if we just flew over their s----y little country anyway?” Suppose the US really was a hegemonic power bent on dominating and exploiting the Third ...
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Seymour Hersh on Pakistan
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 5:48:28 pm PST
Master journalist Seymour Hersh talks with PBS’s Jane Wallace about Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, and our nuclear dance with the devil. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) JANE WALLACE: What you're saying is that then part of the forces our guys are facing are forces that are being supported by or intermixed with ...
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Oil Tick Judenhass
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 2:32:47 pm PST
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal has told the BBC that the world would be a safer place if the international community took the same measures against Israel as it is taking now against Iraq. (Hat tip: zulubabe.) Al-Faisal told the BBC that had the international community used the same ...
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Terror Plotters in Cleveland
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 2:00:02 pm PST
The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Amanda Garrett reveals that a person identified in the indictment of Sami al-Arian as “Unindicted Co-Conspirator One” is actually the Imam of Cleveland, Fawaz Damra. (Hat tip: Eric Olsen.) Damra - who for years portrayed himself as a moderate who tried to bring local Muslims and ...
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MaxSpeaks Bloodthirsty Blowback
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:05:58 pm PST
Pardon me while I gloat a bit over Max Sawicky’s attempted slur—which has backfired magnificently, beautifully, majestically! Did he really think the bloodthirsty warbloggers wouldn’t embrace his rather unlovely phrase—the Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse—and turn it into yet another public shaming of the irrelevant left? Did he? Huh? ...
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Not In Our Name: Financed by Islamists
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:17:59 am PST
The anti-war group Not In Our Name has been signing up celebrities left and right, taking out ads in newspapers, organizing protest marches, and generally making a gigantic pest of itself. In today’s New York Post, Byron York investigates the funding for this group—and look who’s holding the purse strings. ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:02:45 am PST
Browse through Yahoo’s Middle East photographs on any given day, and you’ll see dozens of pictures of Palestinian boys throwing rocks at tanks and IDF troops; AP and Reuters photographers never get tired of this theme, and it obviously aids the Palestinian propaganda effort to show the noble “children of ...
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Rude Awakening
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 8:48:17 am PST
Much to their surprise, the Western human shields in Iraq are discovering that Saddam Hussein has his own ideas about how to deploy them for maximum advantage. (Hat tip: PDM.) Fifteen volunteers from the first 200 shields are moving into a bunker at the South Baghdad Electricity Plant in an ...
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Muslims Killing Muslims
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 7:57:44 am PST
In Pakistan at least 8 Shi'ite Muslims, including a 7-year old boy, were killed when unknown attackers (probably Sunni Muslims) fired automatic weapons into a mosque. Now the Shi'ites are rioting.
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Honest Protest Sign Watch
Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 5:17:56 pm PST
Note: the real photo is here.
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Is That Anything Like the Beatles?
Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 2:30:00 pm PST
Steven den Beste emailed to let me know that Max B. Sawicky, in the midst of a typically self-aggrandizing rant about “civility” (a quality he sorely lacks) and a patronizing put-down of Megan, described me, Steven, Andrew, and Glenn as ... prepare your psyche for the impact of a stunning ...
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Al-Arian Met With Rove
Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 2:12:38 pm PST
According to today’s Washington Post, terror suspect Sami al-Arian attended a group meeting at the White House in 2001 with President Bush’s senior adviser Karl Rove: Alleged Terrorist Met With Bush Adviser. Al-Arian and his family also were photographed with Bush during a March 2000 campaign stop near Al-Arian's suburban ...
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Viva Las Baghdad
Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 1:27:18 pm PST
On February 15, thousands of Iraqi citizens took to the streets to show their loyalty to the King.
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Europe's Monomania
Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 1:17:36 pm PST
George Will makes an excellent point about Europe's Monomania. Today's demonstrators against a war to disarm Iraq can hardly be explained by fear for their safety, or by sympathy for Saddam Hussein's fascism. The London demonstration -- 1 million strong, much the largest in British history -- was not as ...
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A Common Thread
Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 9:26:28 am PST
The peace-loving Palestinians turned out for an “anti-war” demonstration in Ramallah today. Meanwhile in Germany, a gang of “peace activists” blocked the main gate of the US Rhein-Main Air Base—carrying the same sign. What group is paying for these signs?
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Always the Poodles of Hypocrisy
Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 8:30:29 am PST
The hypocritical chocolate poodles who rule Belgium gave themselves universal jurisdiction to try war crimes cases anywhere in the space-time continuum, from the Big Bang to the last gasp of a crab-like creature on a desolate beach at the death of the universe. Of course this godlike power was immediately used ...
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A Last Chance to Stop Iraq
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:43:34 pm PST
Kenneth M. Pollack warns that this may be our Last Chance to Stop Iraq. (Hat tip: SecHumanist.) Most ominous today, we have heard from many intelligence sources — including some of the highest-level defectors now in America and abroad — that Saddam Hussein believes that once he has acquired nuclear ...
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Hanging Chads, Anyone?
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 7:58:25 pm PST
In typical hyperbolic fashion, the “anti-war” crew in San Francisco estimated their attendance last weekend at about 200,000 maroons—but aerial photographs show less than a third of that inflated number: Photos show 65,000 at peak of S.F. rally.
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Pathetic War Crime Enablers
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 6:12:53 pm PST
The human shields are deploying, and could it possibly be any more pathetic? 'Human Shields' Begin Deploying in Iraq. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) "We do this because we are very angry," said Ignacio Cano, a bearded Spanish university professor. "Our governments, especially in those countries like mine — Spain, Italy and ...
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Religion of the Holy Hand Grenade
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 3:28:21 pm PST
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Always the Dogs of Poker
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 3:10:19 pm PST
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MPAC Seethes, Whines
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:35:13 pm PST
Radical Islamist front group MPAC is whining to the White House that they’re being unfairly targeted by evil racist neocons like Frank Gaffney: Muslim council takes complaints to Bush. The Muslim Public Affairs Council is organizing a campaign to complain to the White House about David A. Keene, chairman of ...
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Nuclear Buddies Make the News
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:24:37 pm PST
Pardon me while I point out that the picture of Saddam Hussein and Jacques Chirac together at a French nuclear reactor, which is now making the rounds of the major news channels (I just heard Sean Hannity say he’s going to feature it on his Fox show), was first brought ...
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From Manhattan to Baghdad
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:40:04 am PST
A brilliant Victor Davis Hanson column (is there any other kind?) on the progress of civilization’s war against the nihilistic Islamic terrorists: From Manhattan to Baghdad. Are we, then, confronted with a clash of civilizations? Not really, but rather the tottering of the last impediments to the reform of the ...
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His Shameful Defenders
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 9:27:48 am PST
John Podhoretz takes the media to task—particularly Nicholas Kristof—for leaping to the defense of terror suspect Sami al-Arian: His Shameful Defenders. We don't know yet whether Al-Arian will be convicted. But his credulous supporters in the mainstream media, who spilled a lot of ink in his defense, sure have a ...
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The Gathering Jihad
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 9:22:15 am PST
Bat Ye'or traces the roots of Europe’s accelerating drift toward shari'a: European Fears of the Gathering Jihad. To facilitate Muslim settlements in the West, cultural changes in school teaching, universities and social life were imposed. Textbooks were rewritten in view of allayingMuslim susceptibilities, and university teachings in Middle East and ...
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More Lessons from History
Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 9:04:39 am PST
An excellent column in the Telegraph by W. F. Deedes: The world was weak in 1935 - and Mussolini had his way. (Hat tip: Wim.)
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Saddam’s Best Friends
Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 7:06:49 pm PST
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The Tide of Madness
Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:46:19 am PST
On the anniversary of the murder of his son Daniel, Judea Pearl writes an eloquent plea for the world to stand against The Tide of Madness. President Bush was the only world leader to acknowledge the connection between Danny's murder and the rise of anti-Semitism: "We reject the ancient evil ...
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Appeasing Hitler and Saddam
Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:25:57 am PST
Dude, so there’s this like, historian type dude, you know? And he’s like, trying to say we have to like, you know, like attack Iraq coz of some ancient history type thing, you know? Like, a typical right-wing warmonger dude, you know? Appeasing Hitler and Saddam by Alistair Cooke.
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Germany Hides Iraqi Smallpox Report
Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:40:32 am PST
The Jerusalem Post today carries a story that’s been showing up around the blogosphere for the past week, alleging that the German government deliberately covered up evidence of Iraqi smallpox arsenals to avoid hurting Gerhardt Schroeder’s “anti-war” re-election campaign. (Hat tip: Amy.) On Monday, the newspaper printed a report written ...
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Arab News Freakout
Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:32:37 am PST
Here are a couple of stories from the Arab News that fell through the cracks this week, noteworthy for their sheer freakiness. A Day in the Life of an Executioner. Who says the Saudis don’t respect women? “The sharpness of the sword and bodily strength are the most important things,” Rezkallah ...
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Peace in Our Time
Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 9:06:35 am PST
A lot of LGF readers thought this sign was either a prank by a lone clear thinker, or a Photoshopped fake. It is hard to believe that the “anti-war” movement’s disconnect from history and reality is so profound they don’t even see the hideous irony of using the infamous words ...
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Terror-Aiding Prof in Cuffs
Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 8:19:06 am PST
Excellent news from Tampa Florida, where terror-aiding professor Sami al-Arian has finally been arrested for his ties to terrorism: Palestinian Professor Arrested in Fla. Television reports showed Sami Al-Arian being led in handcuffs to FBI headquarters in Tampa after the arrest. His indictment is sealed until a court hearing scheduled ...
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The King Leaves the Castle
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 8:22:18 pm PST
An excellent piece on Czech President Vaclav Havel at the New Yorker: Exit Havel. Havel coughed and took a sip of wine. I asked him why he thought a policy of containment could not work in Iraq more or less indefinitely.He put his glass down and said, "Civilization has changed. ...
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The Price of Their Peace
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 6:40:17 pm PST
The Dissident Frogman has a Flash animation that puts the Idiotarian Circus in context, to devastating effect: The price of their peace.
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Muchos Gracias, Stooges
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 5:48:57 pm PST
James Morrow is in Australia, which is near New Zealand, where they’re all nuts except for LGF reader Evan. James, although he does live in Australia, isn’t nuts either, as he shows with this great condensed rant on last weekend’s incredibly annoying Idiotarian Circus: Thanks a lot, A55H0LE5!
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Bravo, James Earl Jones
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 5:23:13 pm PST
A big LGF Bravissimo! to James Earl Jones, who showed today that he’s made of stronger stuff than most of his Hollyweird colleagues. Jones, a former Army officer, drew perhaps the biggest round of applause after the subject turned to America's showdown with Iraq. He said that war is sometimes ...
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Operation KFC
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 5:12:38 pm PST
Expect an outcry when the animal rights moonbats get wind of Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken. (Hat tip: ploome.) A war against Iraq will see the debut of some of the most sophisticated weaponry ever used. But U.S. troops will also rely on one of the most low-tech detection devices around: ...
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Always the Weasel of Cowardice
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:53:20 am PST
In an interview on French radio, Colin Powell said “certain countries” are afraid. But we all know who he meant. Powell: Anti-War Nations 'Afraid' of Duty. "It is not a satisfactory solution to continue inspections indefinitely because certain countries are afraid of upholding their responsibility to impose the will of ...
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Winnie the Necklace Queen
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:38:01 am PST
Convicted kidnapper Winnie Mandela is the latest celebrity stooge offering to commit war crimes in Iraq: Winnie Mandela - Iraqi 'human shield'.
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Iraq for the Iraqis
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 9:59:15 am PST
In this article at OpinionJournal the head of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmad Chalabi, criticizes the US plan for a post-Saddam Iraq: Iraq for the Iraqis. Here in Iraqi Kurdistan, it is easy to sense the people's mood of jubilation as President Bush moves closer to ending Saddam and his ...
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Smart Protest Sign Watch
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 9:48:29 am PST
Photos of some excellent counter-protest signs in San Francisco: Dittoheads Infiltrate Frisco Freak Protest. “Communism has only killed 100 million people – Let’s give it another chance!” (Hat tip: Henry Hanks.) UPDATE: Also see this funny/scary film by Evan Coyne Maloney. Funny because the protesters are so utterly uninformed; scary for ...
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Human Shield Clown Show
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 8:43:30 am PST
Nasty bickering, anti-Semitism, hatred of America, moony idealism, and grandstanding buffoons. A meeting of the UN Security Council? No, it’s the troupe of unintentionally hilarious human shields limping into Baghdad a day late for Saturday’s pro-Saddam demonstrations. One of their buses broke down in Italy, so they had 65 neo-primitive peace creeps ...
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The Money Men
Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 2:40:12 am PST
A “treasure trove” of documents seized from the Bosnian offices of Benevolence International Foundation (the Illinois-based Muslim “charity” whose leader pleaded guilty to sending money to jihadi groups) contains a list of 20 financiers of Al Qaeda. (Hat tip: zulubabe.)
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Stifle!
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 7:53:19 pm PST
Senator John McCain has some advice for Fiskie Award winner Jimmy Carter: Shut Up! Saying he was concerned that public criticism of President Bush by former U.S. leaders was damaging to America's interests, Sen. John McCain, R. Ariz., told ex-presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter on Tuesday to "shut up!""It ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 6:49:58 pm PST
Once again we take a whirlwind tour of the delusional hate speech (khutba) that continues to spew from the wacked-out imams and shrieking sheikhs of the most holy mosques in the Arab world—some of them in countries that are touted as “moderates” or “allies.” The sheikhs of Saudi Arabia seem to ...
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Amazon Honor System Gets Stubborn
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 4:04:32 pm PST
If you’ve tried to donate through Amazon and got the message that they’re unable to accept payments, sorry about that. For some reason there’s an absurdly low limit on the amount our Amazon account will accept; we’ve searched the Amazon help documents to the point of psychosis and couldn’t find ...
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The Other Front
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 3:58:42 pm PST
At OpinionJournal, Ahmed Rashid points out that Pakistan continues to play their duplicitous game—and it’s getting worse, with preparations for a major Taliban offensive timed to coincide with a US invasion of Iraq: The Other Front. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan--Lest we forget the other front, pay heed to ...
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Nuclear Buddies for Life
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:59:23 am PST
A jaw-dropping photograph from 1975, showing Saddam Hussein in France visiting a nuclear reactor. At far right: Jacques Chirac. From a Flash animation describing Israel’s destruction of Iraq’s French-built Tammuz 1 nuclear reactor in 1981: Operation Opera. (Hat tip: Big Jess.)
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Protest the Protest
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:48:41 am PST
Someone sent me a link to this “anti-war” scheme to spam every Senate office with a call a minute on February 26. Here’s our tipster’s suggestion for a little counter-protest insurrection: Sign up for this virtual march and then do nothing on Feb. 26th. Their goal is one email or ...
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Curtains for the Peaceniks
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:05:18 am PST
Mark Steyn says the curtain will come down on the peaceniks. Hitler's problem was that he was over-invested in ideology. He'd invented a universal theory -- the wickedness of the international Jewish conspiracy -- and he persisted in fitting every square peg of cold hard reality into that theory's round ...
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Germany Sells Sarin Capacity to N. Korea
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:07:48 am PST
Remember the North Korean ship that was intercepted last year delivering Scud missiles to Yemen? Today Bill Gertz reports that after dropping off the missiles, the ship made a stop in Germany—to pick up several tons of sodium cyanide, a precursor chemical used in sarin nerve gas. (Hat tip: Andrew ...
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Simplistic Weasels
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 9:53:12 am PST
Here’s a poll showing fairly conclusively that French public opposition to going to war against Iraq is based not on principle, but on simple anti-Americanism. (Hat tip: Brian Chapin.) Offered a choice of three reasons to best explain why they opposed going to war, 76 percent of the anti-war camp ...
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Fiskie Winner in Fine Form
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 8:13:15 am PST
Jimmy Carter is talking to London’s most anti-American tabloid, the Mirror, proving beyond a doubt that his Idiotarian of the Year prize was well-deserved. FORMER US President Jimmy Carter is backing the Daily Mirror's Not in My Name campaign.The Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the only US president since 1945 ...
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Comments On
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 7:57:13 am PST
I've turned comments back on, because the nightly backup of our server log gave us some more space. But I still have not heard back from our web host on why these problems are happening, so I may have to turn them off again. I'll keep our readers posted as ...
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Help Keep LGF Running Smoothly
Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 1:47:31 am PST
You may have noticed that comments are temporarily disabled again; sorry for the inconvenience, but our disk space keeps running out, even as I delete non-essential stuff to make room, and our web host apparently decided to go to Acapulco for the holiday weekend. If you’ve been considering making a donation ...
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Mohammed Rodriguez
Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 4:20:10 pm PST
The man arrested at Gatwick Airport last week with a live grenade in his luggage, who was originally identified as “Venezuelan,” just happens to be named after a certain moon-worshipping prophet: Hasil Mohammed Rahaham-Alan, 37, from Venezuela, appeared at Bow Street Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with terrorism offences. Customs ...
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The Head Weasel is Upset
Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 4:20:10 pm PST
Good lord; and these weasels call Americans arrogant! Chirac blasts eastern Europeans over pro-American stance. BRUSSELS, Belgium - French President Jacques Chirac launched a withering attack Monday on eastern European nations who signed letters backing the U.S. position on Iraq, warning it could jeopardize their chances of joining the European ...
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Fifth Column Rappers
Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 2:28:03 pm PST
Today the Seattle PI has a puff-piece on a Muslim rap group called Sons of Hagar—and no, they don’t mean Sammy Hagar, although, knowing Sammy, they just might be his sons. (Hat tip: Erik.) Here is group leader Ahmad (stage name: Allahz Sword), leading off with a self-righteous lyric about humiliation ...
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British Shari'a Watch
Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:39:47 pm PST
A British judge in the case of radical Muslim freakazoid Abdullah el-Faisal has excluded Jews and Hindus from serving as jurors in the trial. El-Faisal is accused of inciting the murder of ... Jews and Hindus. An excellent essay from Harvey A. Silverglate shows why this is a downright horrible precedent: ...
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Vatican: Saddam "Open to Dialog"
Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:05:09 am PST
The Vatican’s French envoy has returned from Iraq after talking “peace” with a bloody-handed murderer, saying that Saddam Hussein is “open to dialog,” and that “peace is still possible.” In his departure statement in Baghdad, released by the Vatican on Monday, Etchegaray said: "Amid the big clouds that are ...
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Moderate Islam in Jordan
Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 9:43:17 am PST
Jordan is often touted as one of the most “moderate” Arab Muslim states. Today they sentenced three journalists to prison for libeling Mohammed. (Hat tip: ploome.) The three journalists, handcuffed and wearing dark blue prison uniforms, stood silently in the dock as al-Buqour delivered his verdict during the 20-minute hearing. ...
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Bill Tierney: Iraq Has Nukes
Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 9:18:14 am PST
Former UNSCOM inspector and intelligence analyst Bill Tierney believes that Saddam Hussein already has nuclear weapons—and he has a suspicion where they might be: Here's Your Smoking Gun: Iraqi Nukes. (Hat tip: Mystic Monist.) I have seen enough to convince me that the Iraqis do have nukes, and I know ...
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Malaysian PM Justifies Terrorism
Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 2:07:48 am PST
The Prime Minister of Malaysia told a visiting group of Palestinians that Israel’s actions were worse than the 9/11 attacks. Speaking to the group at his official residence, Mahathir was quoted as saying that "while the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack gave the impression that the perpetrators of the crime ...
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Peace Creeps Turn Violent
Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 1:49:16 am PST
In San Francisco yesterday, a large group of “anti-war” demonstrators was so overcome by the spirit of peace and love that they went on a 4-hour orgy of vandalism and violence, assaulting police officers, smashing store windows and spray painting cars: Splinter group clashes with cops for hours.
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Comments Disabled, Host Unresponsive
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 7:53:30 pm PST
Our web host is not responding to our cries for help and more disk space, so comments are turned off temporarily.
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Curtains for the Pediatrician?
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 5:03:16 pm PST
Israeli tanks have entered Gaza City, headed for the neighborhood where the Pediatrician of Death Abdel Azziz Rantisi lives: Israeli Tanks Head for Hamas Stronghold. It was the first time Israeli forces moved on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City. The incursion came after Saturday's blast in northern ...
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Stupid Protest Sign Watch
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 3:47:36 pm PST
A stellar collection of clueless protest signs for the idiocy aficianados among us, at the diablogger.
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What's On Arafat's Desk?
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 3:07:15 pm PST
It’s getting really bad in what’s left of Abu Amar’s Muqata; at this point a better title might be What Isn’t On Arafat’s Desk? The Marlboro Lights are new (and long-smoked by now) but the red binder, the evil, fiendish red binder, mocks me still!
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Hamas Has a New Hobby
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 2:48:34 pm PST
DEBKAfile’s headline at the moment says Hamas was apparently preparing a chemical attack, to be carried out by remote-controlled toy airplanes. Israel investigating three barrels found in home of senior Hamas operative Nidal Farkhat suspecting they may be filled with poison chemicals for remote-controlled model plane to spray inside Israel.Earlier ...
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Rome Mayor Snubs Aziz
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:36:42 am PST
The dictator’s mouthpiece Tareq Aziz headed home to beautiful Iraq today, his primary mission accomplished after being granted an audience with the pope. But at least one public figure in Rome showed some spine: Rome Mayor Snubs Aziz After Anti-Israel Comment. Mayor Walter Veltroni, who was due to meet Aziz ...
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Birds of a Feather
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:53:11 am PST
From a Birmingham UK newspaper, here’s a nasty story about a neo-Nazi “intellectual” who has discovered kindred spirits in radical Islam: Midland Nazi turns to Islam. (Hat tip: Susan.) Midland-based David Myatt, 51, was the political guru behind white supremacist group Combat 18 and has been the leading hardline Nazi ...
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Courage
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:34:39 am PST
An excellent essay from Bill Whittle on the Space Shuttle, human flight, and COURAGE. Go ye and read of it.
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Saudi Military Free of Western Influence
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:25:40 am PST
Dancing on the edge of the sword today, the Saudi Arabian defense minister told Saudi troops not to worry, that the kingdom is free of Western influence. "All the accusations you hear and read against the kingdom on such matters are not true. And you know that your country, which ...
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A Letter to the President
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 9:22:11 am PST
An LGF reader who wishes to be known only as “Joe” was kind enough to forward to us his eloquent letter to President George Bush, urging him to stay the course. I emailed the President with a similar message, and if any of our readers wish to do the same, ...
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Saddam Loves the Peace Creeps
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 8:24:07 am PST
What do you know? Yesterday’s “anti-war” Idiotarian Circus did serve a purpose after all: Iraq Hails Rallies. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Iraq's tightly controlled news media gave prominent coverage to anti-war demonstrations staged around the world on Saturday. Iraqi television showed footage of millions marching in the world's cities — under ...
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Lance Rides a Mean Bike...
Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 9:29:46 pm PST
...but he should just shut up about Iraq, before he digs the hole any deeper. As a man who knows and has supported Bush, having met him "around twenty times", Armstrong had this to say about his country's president. "Bush is a hard man, cleverer than people think, but he ...
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The Idiotarian Circus
Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 5:59:30 pm PST
The American Kaiser has an eyewitness report from the Idiotarian Circus in Paris. The rally today was hysterical. Iraqi and Palestinian flags were everywhere, and signs openly declared that the United States and Israel are Nazi regimes. One sign showed Bush with a Hitler mustache, and another featured Ariel Sharon ...
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YMCA Anti-Semitism
Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 5:56:20 pm PST
A brochure from the YMCA of “Palestine” and the YWCA of east Jerusalem compares the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel to the crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans. (Hat tips to all who sent this one.) The brochure states, "Jesus was crucified with the people who were branded as ...
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Sad Bin Laden in Iran
Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:40:34 am PST
Bill Gertz reports in the Washington Times that Osama’s son, Sad bin Laden (yes, that’s really his name), has been spotted in Iran along with other high-ranking Al Qaeda terrorists.
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Photoshop Phun
Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:46:19 am PST
French President Jacques Chirac, center, welcomes Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
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Echoes of Appeasement
Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 9:32:35 am PST
Neither the protester holding this sign nor the Reuters copy editor who captioned the photo have any idea of the historical significance of its message, or what it says about the so-called “anti-war movement.” In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from the Munich Conference after throwing Czechoslovakia to ...
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Stupid Protest Sign Watch
Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 8:35:12 am PST
Islam loves Mercedes. (Hat tip: Michael.)
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Pope John Paul: Useful Idiot
Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 7:34:06 am PST
The Vatican hobnobs with a psychotic dictator’s puppet, and the pope gives Iraq his blessing. Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Pope Tells Iraqi Official He Opposes War. VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II told Iraq's deputy prime minister on Friday that the Vatican opposed war against Baghdad but insisted that Saddam ...
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Peace Creep Checklist
Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 3:01:08 am PST
From Cox and Forkum’s collection “Black & White World.”
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The Catholic Church and Iraq
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 9:30:44 pm PST
An interesting post from Jonathan Hawkins looks at the Catholic Church’s cowardly stance on the Iraq problem.
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Pretty Boy C. Looney
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 7:11:15 pm PST
Brace yourself for a trying weekend as the muddle-brained, anti-Semitic anti-war left/right/fascist/communist/terrorist morons take to the streets for more irrelevant, foolish demonstrations. George Clooney will be one of the leaders of the festivities, and al-Guardian columnist Sally Vincent slobbers all over him: Pretty boys can think. (Hat tip: Investigations of ...
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Berlin’s New Anti-American Axis
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 4:13:15 pm PST
The highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc alleges that Joschka Fischer’s anti-Americanism stems from connections with the Soviet KGB’s terrorist operations: Berlin’s New Anti-American Axis.
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Aussie Shields On Their Own
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 4:05:40 pm PST
Australia’s foreign affairs department tells their human shields: don’t come crying to us. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said its ability to help any Australian civilian wanting to leave Iraq during a military conflict was very limited. Activists from around the world have converged on strife-torn places such ...
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The Islamic Blame Game
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 3:48:51 pm PST
Stefan Sharkansky translates and summarizes an enlightening essay from Germany’s Die Zeit by Mordechay Lewy, examining the differences between Western “guilt culture” and Arab Islamic “blame culture.”
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Host Problems Again
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 2:54:02 pm PST
Sorry this is happening again, folks, but we're getting “disk full” errors again even though our host assured me it had been fixed. Comments are turned off until we resolve this; please stand by. UPDATE: I still haven’t heard anything from our host, but I downloaded and deleted our server logs ...
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It's Not Really About Saddam
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 9:58:52 am PST
It’s getting difficult to come up with new ways to say it; another great column from Mark Steyn: It's not really about Saddam. Saddam is what Alfred Hitchcock called the MacGuffin. Like the top-secret formula in The 39 Steps or the uranium in Notorious, he's the pretext for the movie, ...
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Pathetic Joke of the Day
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 8:58:29 am PST
Wow, what a relief. Bring the troops home, Dubya; Iraq has banned weapons of mass destruction. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein banned all weapons of mass destruction from Iraq on Friday, meeting a longtime U.N. demand hours before chief U.N. weapons inspectors delivered crucial reports on Iraq's disarmament. ...
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The Truth About a Peace Creep
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 8:36:10 am PST
The “human shield” son of a bitch I wrote about yesterday calls himself “Sarin,” but his real name is Ben Granby. One of our readers discovered that this high-minded peace activist is in a band. The band is called Quisling. Ben Granby is an out and out Nazi. UPDATE: I’m being told ...
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Holiday From History
Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 8:14:17 am PST
Charles Krauthammer says America took a Holiday From History in the 1990s, and now we are reaping the whirlwind. Clinton flattered himself as looking beyond such mundane problems to a grander transnational vision (global warming, migration and the like), while dispatching American military might to quell "teacup wars" in places ...
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Alterman Plagiarism?
Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 5:54:31 pm PST
G. Beato at soundbitten.com has noticed more than a few similarities between a review he wrote for the Washington Post, and a passage in Eric Alterman’s book What Liberal Media?
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Useless Idiots
Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 4:30:37 pm PST
Here’s a first-hand look inside Iraq, from an American human shield who is blogging from Baghdad. He writes well, but his outlook is so twisted and bizarre that he could be from a different species. Mahmud had previously asked some of us for typical slogans used in the US. I ...
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Phrank Inspires Photoshop Phrenzy
Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 3:59:16 pm PST
Fark.com has a hilarious Photoshop contest featuring our buddy Frank Wright of the Rural Peacemakers. (Hat tip: Combustible Boy.) UPDATE: LGF reader PDM contributes to the visual fisking.
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The Spitefulness of the Weak
Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 1:12:25 pm PST
Lord Conrad Black says that Britain is right to stand by America. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) To give maximum service to the causes of freedom and economic growth, we must maintain and build on our unique alliance with the United States. It is preferable to continue to be envied because ...
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Comments Back On
Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:16:19 am PST
Well, folks, you verbose LGFers seem to have maxed out our server space again; comments are temporarily disabled while I get things worked out with our web host. Sorry for the inconvenience; I thought we had gotten enough disk space from our host last time this happened, and I'm wondering ...
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Cross-Blog Iraq Debate
Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 9:09:24 am PST
Cross-Blog Iraq Debate: The Questions. These are the anti-war questions, with my answers. 1. Attacking Iraq has been publicly called a "pre-emption" of a threat from Saddam Hussein's regime, whose sins include launching regional wars of aggression. Do you think there is a clear and reliable difference between pre-emptive and ...
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Israel's Belgian Ambassador Recalled
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 6:07:32 pm PST
In 1993, Belgium granted themselves the right to judge war crimes anywhere in the world and promptly began trying to put Jews on trial, starting with Ariel Sharon. Today the almighty chocolate poodles ruled that not only could they put Sharon in the stocks (when he’s out of office, too ...
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Fecklessness and Opportunism
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 4:52:43 pm PST
Michael Ledeen says the French and Germans know much more than they’re admitting about the connections between Iran, Iraq, and terror master Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.
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Capturing Young Minds
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 2:28:26 pm PST
Asian secondary school students visit a mosque to witness an animal sacrifice, and get the full “jihad isn’t holy war” whitewash: Many of the secondary school students, aged between 14 and 16 - including some from China - visited a mosque and witnessed korban, the sacrificial slaughter of sheep, for ...
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The Religious Elders of Palestine
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 2:17:08 pm PST
The IDF has a report that the “Council of Religious Elders of Palestine,” a Hamas-sponsored group including many lecturers from the infamous An-Najah University in Nablus, has called for jihad against the United States and its allies. The announcement was sent out to Arabs and Muslims worldwide and especially to ...
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What Does a Dictator Have to Do?
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 1:49:25 pm PST
Poor North Korea. They throw out the inspectors, restart their nuclear plants, threaten the region with war, and still the US tries to negotiate. What does it take to get some military attention?
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Reuters: Some = Practically All
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:41:25 pm PST
I rant a lot about the media’s denial of the extent to which radical Islam has become mainstream, but rarely do I see such a blatant example of whitewashing as this Reuters story: Some Muslim Pilgrims Overjoyed by Bin Laden Tape. Notice the hed: “some Muslims.” Interesting word, “some.” More ...
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The Antiwar Anti-Semites
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:16:48 am PST
You know it’s getting bad when even Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun (the far-left Jewish peacenik group) recognizes anti-Semitism in the so-called “anti-war” agenda promoted by ANSWER: The Antiwar Anti-Semites. SAN FRANCISCO--Imagine my surprise when I found out that I am banned from speaking at a peace rally here this ...
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Arab Press Welcomes Nato Split
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 9:05:00 am PST
Germany, France, and Belgium are getting rave reviews from the dictatorships and Islamic governments of the Middle East and North Africa: Arab press welcomes Nato split. "We would like to present one million roses from the gardens of Arab presidential palaces to Germany and France," Sudan's Al-Ray Al-Am says. "With ...
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The Mark Steyn Interview
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 8:39:04 am PST
The Mark Steyn Interview. Need I say more?
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Germany's Mr. Tough Guy
Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 8:36:19 am PST
Michael Kelly takes a look at the shabby history of the man who lectured Donald Rumsfeld: Germany's Mr. Tough Guy. Mr. Rumsfeld may have convinced the leaders of 18 European nations, but not you, Mr. Fischer. It's personal. This seems to me the right way to look at it. The ...
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Knight Without a Horse
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 9:14:04 pm PST
MEMRI has mind-blowing subtitled video excerpts from the Egyptian TV series Knight Without a Horse, based on the infamous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It’s worse than I imagined. To benefit from the past and from the mistakes of others, we must remember that our plans ...
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Rural Peacemakers
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 8:29:56 pm PST
Frank Wright may be naïve and horribly wrong (he thinks evil can be fought with kind acts), but he seems like a nice enough guy. And he extends an invitation to any LGF readers in Minnesota.
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RIP, M. Kahil
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 6:07:18 pm PST
Arab News cartoonist Mahmoud Kahil has died following surgery in a British hospital. Kahil was a talented illustrator whose gift was, unfortunately, often misused in the service of a corrupt regime. On the day of his passing I choose to remember and respect his talent, and think of what he ...
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Intifada Bias Watch
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:56:11 pm PST
Reuters’ usual anti-Israel bias comes out again in this headline: Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Boy, 8. You have to read down to the middle of the story to discover that the boy was part of a gang throwing petrol bombs at IDF soldiers. But I’m starting to wonder if someone at ...
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The Traditional Stampede
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:55:27 am PST
Fourteen Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia were trampled to death today, as they participated in a 14th century ritual mob scene known as “stoning the devil.” This is a traditional stampede that can be counted on to kill dozens each year; in 1998 at least 150 people were killed.
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What, No Video?
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:33:23 am PST
Al Jazeera says they have a new audio tape with the voice of Osama bin Deadman, expressing Al Qaeda’s solidarity with Iraq. Colin Powell said he read a transcript of "what bin Laden — or who we believe to be bin Laden" will be saying on the Al-Jazeera Arab satellite ...
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Pro-Saddam Nursery Rhymes
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:21:18 am PST
Hey, whaddaya think, those “peace” chants make themselves up? Somebody actually writes this drek, and publishes it on the web for “peace” protesters to use in their pro-Saddam demonstrations: Songs and Chants for Peace.
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The Iraqi Anthrax Case
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:06:15 am PST
Former IDF intelligence officer Dr. Danny Shoham, now a senior researcher at Bar Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, has published a thesis arguing that circumstantial evidence in the US anthrax attacks strongly suggests an Iraqi connection. (Hat tip: Grybstein.) I agree; I’ve long maintained that a hostile state, ...
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The Inspections Dodge
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 7:52:59 am PST
The former head of Iraq’s secret nuclear program says inspections were never intended to produce results: The Inspections Dodge.
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Anti-Israel Poets
Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 3:04:15 am PST
Alyssa A. Lappen attended a poetry event sponsored by a professor of Hebrew literature at Queens College, and discovered a plan to transform US literary gatherings into pro-Arab, anti-Israel forums. Alcalay introduced with great fanfare a "report" from Rebecca Murray who went to Jenin and Tulkarem last year with the ...
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UN Fecklessness Update
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 6:38:31 pm PST
The family of the Iraqi man who appealed for help from UN inspectors (and was hauled away by Iraqi enforcers) is asking Amnesty International to find out what’s happened to him. Like television viewers around the world, Adnan Abdul Karim Enad’s relatives were shocked to see him clambering into a ...
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Calling PETA
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 6:24:50 pm PST
Hello? PETA? Hello?
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Remembering Differently
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 6:15:46 pm PST
If you laughed at my snarky comments about the anti-war protesters in Harmony Minnesota, don’t miss James Lileks’s entry for today: I remember it differently.
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There Goes WaPo Again
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 5:44:23 pm PST
The Washington Post seems to go on periodic crusades against Israel; the latest two examples of this are well and truly fisked by Joseph Alexander Norland and Meryl Yourish.
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The Muslim World
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 5:25:52 pm PST
The creator of this cartoon at Cleveland Scene probably intended to make fun of narrow-minded “average Americans”—but he ended up drawing an amazingly accurate picture of the way things are: The Muslim World. (Hat tip: growler.)
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First Annual Warblogger Awards
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 4:58:56 pm PST
LGF tied for second place (with Monsieur Clueless) in the “Best Blog Overall” category, in John Hawkins’ peer-judged First Annual Warblogger Awards. The juggernaut of bloggerdom, Instapundit, took first place in both “Best Blog Overall” and “Most Overrated Blog.”
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Hizb'Allah Branches Out
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 3:30:50 pm PST
Hizb'Allah can’t raise money in Canada any more, but they still need income to finance their special corner of the global jihad. So they’re coming out with a cute little Jew-killin’ computer game. (Hat tip: adam.) Hizbullah is reported to be developing a computer action game to counter the image ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 1:46:57 pm PST
Raging paranoia, blind hatred, magical thinking, whining victimhood, and crazed ranting. Am I describing a meeting of the Screen Actors Guild? No, it’s this week’s Peaceful Religion Watch, turning the spotlight on the sermons (khutba) preached every Friday in the most sacred mosques of the Arab world, by their most exalted spiritual ...
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The Enemies of Islam
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:06:40 am PST
The execrable Saudi Sheikhs seem to have a dim, murky understanding that they’re being watched by the West, and it’s made them self-conscious enough to avoid mentioning the US directly in their incitement khutba—but not afraid enough of the consequences to shut up completely. Fox reports that the top religious ...
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Fisking Matthews
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:20:55 am PST
Dave Matthews proves the axiom that it’s better to keep quiet and have people think you a fool than to open your trap and remove all doubt. An anonymous LGF reader was kind enough to send us a copy of his email to Matthews, and it’s a fine example of the ...
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Multilateral Roach
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 9:30:30 am PST
Another from Cox and Forkum’s collection “Black & White World.”
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French Outrage of the Day
Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 2:06:54 am PST
French perfidy hits a new low. In their latest desperate move to throw a (cheese eating surrender) monkey wrench into the effort to disarm Saddam Hussein, France has vetoed NATO plans to protect Turkey. BRUSSELS, Belgium -- France has blocked military planning to protect Turkey in the event of a war ...
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N. Korean Arrested in Lebanon?
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 at 6:02:32 pm PST
A weird story from a weird source: N. Korean arrested in Lebanon, charged with anti-U.S. plot. (Hat tip: Matt K.) NICOSIA — A North Korean "extremist" has been arrested by authorities at the notorious Ein Hilwe Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. [This is the camp where anti-US demonstrations broke out ...
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E. Nough Thinks Meat
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 at 5:17:58 pm PST
Bookmark this: LGF contributor E. Nough (author of the parody article that was picked up by Israel’s Ha'aretz newspaper and others as a real news item) has his own weblog at last: Thinking Meat.
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Stupid Protest Sign Watch
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 at 4:03:43 pm PST
It’s a constantly moving target, and there will always be new candidates, but I think I may have found the world’s dumbest anti-war protesters: the Rural Peacemakers in Harmony Minnesota. First we have a protester who has moved on from banalities like “it’s all about oil” and “no blood for oil” ...
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India on Center Stage
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 at 12:44:25 pm PST
Thomas Friedman suggests removing France from the United Nations Security Council and replacing them with India: Vote France Off the Island. (Hat tip: toomatoo.) The French position is utterly incoherent. The inspections have not worked yet, says Mr. de Villepin, because Saddam has not fully cooperated, and, therefore, we should ...
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Facts About Japanese Relocation
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 at 11:46:05 am PST
Here’s a fascinating post at Sgt. Stryker’s by CPO Sharkey, about the relocation of Japanese American citizens during World War II, with decryptions of Japanese diplomatic traffic revealing the existence of a well-organized spy network inside the United States. I’ve never really researched the Japanese relocations, and the news about ...
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How to Make a Martyr
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 at 10:53:14 am PST
Even though the Palestinian intifada (with its abhorrent death cult of martyrdom and suicidal mass murder) has resulted in disaster for the Palestinians themselves with the virtual destruction of their economy and infrastructure, Yasser Arafat’s PLO propaganda machine continues to churn out sick jihad fantasies. Here’s an excellent article by ...
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Al Qaeda’s Opening Shot
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 at 10:01:32 am PST
Two days before September 11, Al Qaeda suicide bombers masquerading as journalists assassinated Afghan Northern Alliance leader Shah Massoud. Yesterday, in an ominously similar development that has gone virtually unnoticed in US media, members of the Al Qaeda-linked Kurdish Islamic extremist group Ansar al Islam, masquerading as defectors, murdered several top ...
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A Nice Job for Wives
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 at 9:26:57 am PST
New European Commission regulations coming into effect next year will force farmers to stamp every egg they sell with their home address, the details of the hen that laid the egg, the method of production, the code for the producer-packer, and a sell-by date: Egg on Europe's face. (Hat tip: ...
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The Idiotarian Super Bowl
Sat, Feb 8, 2003 at 5:34:37 pm PST
Proving again that all the world’s idiocies are congealing into one vast heaving lump of sullen victimhood, discredited ideologies, and cynical intellectualism, the anti-globalist crowd got together with the radical Islamists in Porto Alegre last month in a sort of nightmarish Idiotarian Super Bowl, presided over by the King and ...
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Outrage of the Week
Sat, Feb 8, 2003 at 3:46:14 pm PST
France and Germany were actually cooking up their own plan to put a UN peacekeeping force in Iraq—without telling the United States. MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The United States is likely to reject a proposal France and Germany were crafting for beefed up U.N. arms inspections in Iraq ...
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Extremist Groups Renew Activity in Pakistan
Sat, Feb 8, 2003 at 12:50:10 pm PST
The Washington Post says that almost all of the radical Islamic freakazoids arrested by Pakistani authorities after September 11 have now been released, and Pakistan is quickly becoming a buzzing hive of anti-Western jihadi camps: Extremist Groups Renew Activity in Pakistan. Perhaps nowhere is Musharraf's unfinished business more visible than ...
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Bir Zeit-on-Hudson
Sat, Feb 8, 2003 at 12:16:24 pm PST
Martin Kramer writes about a fanatically anti-Jewish professor at Columbia University, who spoke on a panel at the Palestinian propaganda festival we wrote about last month. This week, Massad has cropped up on the pages of Al-Ahram Weekly, and he has outdone himself. The article is a rant against the ...
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What the Hell Is Wrong With These People?
Sat, Feb 8, 2003 at 12:01:45 pm PST
They didn’t get very many freaks willing to strip in the Central Park snow: But in the land down under where it’s summer, the loons turned out with a vengeance. A nude vengeance.
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Jihad in Hawaii
Sat, Feb 8, 2003 at 9:50:05 am PST
I caught a lot of heat for what people thought was a “cavalier” attitude toward this story, about anti-Muslim leaflets tossed into a mosque in Hawaii. According to a news release from the Council on American Islamic Relations, a national Islamic rights group out of Washington, D.C., the leaflets were ...
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The Rat That Roared
Sat, Feb 8, 2003 at 9:24:14 am PST
Hitchens demolishes the preening peacock of Paris, Jacques Chirac: The Rat That Roared. Here is a man who had to run for re-election last year in order to preserve his immunity from prosecution, on charges of corruption that were grave. Here is a man who helped Saddam Hussein build a ...
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The Marching Morons
Sat, Feb 8, 2003 at 8:37:40 am PST
An LGF reader emailed about a web site where you can send a letter to George Bush—and she stumbled onto a mother lode of whining, ranting moonbats. THRILL as the idiots call George Bush a terrorist! GASP as the slackwits pretend to be 11 years old! MARVEL at their stunning leaps of illogic! Samples: ...
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Nazimedia Notices LGF
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 8:42:20 pm PST
The useful morons at Vancouver Indymedia are talking about LGF.
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Elevated Threat Level Details
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 6:06:03 pm PST
NC wrote to point out this CNN release with some disturbing details on why the terror threat level was increased from yellow to orange today. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the reports indicated that so-called "soft" targets -- those more lightly guarded, such as apartments, hotels, sports arenas and amusement ...
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Seething, Lashing Muslim Watch
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 4:40:48 pm PST
A bizarre little story in Pakistan’s Daily Times says that Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti (their top religious leader) has “lashed out” at the enemies of Islam. The bizarre part is in his confused identification of those “enemies.” First the high mucky muck says: “The Islamic Ummah is facing many challenges ...
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CAIR Should Put America First
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 4:26:11 pm PST
Arab writer Nonie Darwish rips CAIR for their attempts to suppress free speech and intimidate critics (like Daniel Pipes): CAIR Should Put America First. CAIR is using the same oppressive modus operandi of the media in the Moslem world. They try to intimidate the American media that criticize them with ...
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Free Speech, Slavery and Islam
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 4:11:30 pm PST
A good new column from Bala Ambati on the continued whitewashing of the worst aspects of Islam: Free speech, slavery and Islam.
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Religion of Semtex
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 1:29:27 pm PST
In Israel, two Islamic Jihad terrorists were arrested before they could carry out a suicide bomb attack—and they stashed the explosive belt in a mosque toilet. Police sappers detonated Thursday night an explosive belt found in a Taibeh mosque, just hours after arresting two Islamic Jihad militants on their way ...
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Hamas Blusters
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 1:23:17 pm PST
The evil Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Hamas terror gang, has called on Muslims to strike at Western targets throughout the world if the US attacks Iraq. "It's a Crusaders's aggression, a Crusaders's war and an occupation," Sheikh Ahmed Yassin said of a possible U.S.-led military campaign against Iraq. ...
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First They Came for the Hot Dogs
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 12:04:21 pm PST
Officials in the tourist town of Kennebunk Maine ordered a restaurant owner to remove the words “Hebrew National Beef Franks” from his sun umbrellas. KENNEBUNK, Maine—A restaurant owner is suing officials in this tourist enclave for ordering him to block out the words "Hebrew National Beef Franks" on sun umbrellas ...
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Seething German Watch
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 9:11:44 am PST
German politicians and “peace activists” are worked up into a lather over Donald Rumsfeld’s blunt statements: Germany Seethes Over Rumsfeld Jibe, Protests Planned. Rumsfeld's comments on Wednesday putting Germany in the same category as Libya and Cuba as states that would not be helpful in any international effort to overthrow ...
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White House Muslim Advisers
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 8:37:29 am PST
Here’s a development long overdue: conservative political activist Grover Norquist is coming under serious criticism for facilitating improper access to the White House for radical Wahhabi Muslim groups: Conservatives clash on Muslim Bush aides. Norquist has responded by calling critics “racists” and “religious bigots.”
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Doom, Doom, and More Doom
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 8:29:18 am PST
Another sharp column from Victor Davis Hanson, on the probability of a swift victory over Saddam’s weak, demoralized forces: Doom, Doom, and More Doom. That the whole Arab world translates fewer books each year from English than does Greece really does affect how well its armies use their purchased advanced ...
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High Terror Risk
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 7:57:33 am PST
Breaking news: government officials are recommending that the terror threat level be raised to “high.” Counterterrorism officials have said they are more worried about a possible terrorist attack due to several factors, including an increase in the so-called "chatter" level. The stepped-up chatter indicates a greater amount of intelligence coming ...
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Photos Confirm Wing Damage
Fri, Feb 7, 2003 at 7:29:24 am PST
Photographs taken by an Air Force tracking camera about 60 seconds before the breakup of the shuttle Columbia show serious damage to the leading inboard edge of the left wing. According to sources close to the investigation, the images, under analysis at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, show a ...
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Notes of an Iranian Girl
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 7:09:01 pm PST
Gold from the referrer log: an Iranian girl’s weblog.
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New Poll
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 6:40:46 pm PST
We have a new poll tonight: which cantankerous member of the Security Council will be the first to blink? (Thanks to Ashley for the suggestion.)
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Useful Idiot Goes Too Far
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 6:25:21 pm PST
Alice Thomson says that British lefty loon Tony Benn sold the British public on war against Saddam Hussein: Benn - not Powell - made the case for war on Saddam. (Hat tip: speedster.) It wasn't Colin Powell who swung opinion on this war, or even Hans Blix. It was Tony ...
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The Crew Knew
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 5:47:40 pm PST
The crew of the Columbia knew that a chunk of foam had hit their left wing during take-off, and that there was a potential for problems on reentry—but they never mentioned it: Shuttle crew knew debris hit Columbia. Columbia's crew was aware through most of its 16-day flight that debris ...
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Time to Quit
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 4:23:38 pm PST
Mark Steyn says it’s time (actually past time) to quit the UN. My only question is: is it time to bulldoze the UN? What should replace the UN? Well, some people talk about a ‘caucus of the democracies’. But I’d like to propose a more radical suggestion: Nothing. In the ...
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Syria Occupies Lebanon, World Shrugs
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 2:09:16 pm PST
Claudia Rosett writes about an oppressed Arab population suffering under a brutal, murderous occupation: Pining for Freedom. As one Lebanese political analyst explained it to me, Syria's dictators, first the late President Hafez Assad, now his son Bashar Assad, have simply played their hands more cleverly than Saddam Hussein has. ...
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Fisk Self-Fisks
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 11:53:54 am PST
Robert Fisk, who’s becoming a one-man Idiotarian News Service, weighs in on Colin Powell’s speech to the Security Council—and basically accuses him of lying: You wanted to believe him – but it was like something out of Beckett. Sources, foreign intelligence sources, "our sources," defectors, sources, sources, sources. Colin Powell's ...
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An Asinine Plea
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 11:34:09 am PST
PETA has written a letter to Yasser Arafat begging him to stop the killing. Of donkeys. Here’s a wonderfully acerbic column from Kerry Dougherty that gets it exactly right: Arafat gets asinine plea from PETA on intefadeh. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) Determined to make Hampton Roads look like a ...
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Palestinian Honor Killings
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 10:51:48 am PST
In 2002 at least 31 Palestinian women were murdered by family members—for the crime of being raped or molested. Most of the victims were under the age of 18 and some had been sexually abused or raped by male relatives, according to statistics released by Palestinian police Thursday. The latest ...
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Got 7 in Britain
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 9:43:49 am PST
The forces of civilization are having an especially productive day: Anti-terror police arrest 7 in Britain. The six men and one woman were arrested in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow, in an operation that police said was linked to the arrest of seven North African men in Edinburgh and London ...
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Got 3 in Germany
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 9:40:10 am PST
Three leading members of Islamic centers in Germany (Minden and Muenster) are being questioned in connection with terrorist plots: German police grab terror suspects. German prosecutors say they are believed to have considered attacks in Germany at the end of 2001 and the beginning of 2002, including one "on an ...
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Anti-Idiotarian Infant
Thu, Feb 6, 2003 at 9:13:08 am PST
Come on. I dare anyone to tell me this isn’t the cutest danged thing you’ve ever had the fortune to witness.
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Al-Guardian Hits Another Low
Wed, Feb 5, 2003 at 6:10:57 pm PST
The Guardian maintains and extends their reputation as a prejudice-pandering sleaze rag with this comment in a story about Israel’s grieving over astronaut Ilan Ramon: Israel remembers astronaut as Sharon capitalises on US links. The Israeli government yesterday ordered flags to be flown at half-mast and a remembrance medal struck ...
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Give Us A Chance
Wed, Feb 5, 2003 at 1:00:43 pm PST
An impassioned plea to the nations of the West from the co-prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq: Give Us a Chance to Build a Democratic Iraq. (Hat tip: davesax.) We have watched demonstrators in Washington and other cities chant, "No to war." But the Baathist dictatorship ...
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Enough Evidence
Wed, Feb 5, 2003 at 11:55:56 am PST
From Cox and Forkum’s collection “Black & White World.”
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NK's Nuclear Extortion Game
Wed, Feb 5, 2003 at 11:24:28 am PST
During Colin Powell’s speech, North Korea announced that their nuclear facilities are now back in operation: North Korea Reactivates Nuke Plant. North Korea said Wednesday that it had reactivated its nuclear facilities and is going ahead with their operation "on a normal footing." The communist country will use the facilities ...
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Protesters You Can Get Behind
Wed, Feb 5, 2003 at 10:32:44 am PST
They may be as inane and silly as the Marin County moonbats, but these nude Aussie protesters are much easier on the eyes: Shock of the nude. (Link rated R.)
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Tea With Hitler
Wed, Feb 5, 2003 at 10:27:53 am PST
Ralph Peters on the disgraceful performance of British dictator-nuzzler Tony Benn: Tea With Hitler. Saddam assured Benn that "Iraq has no interest in war," and that "we admire the development of the peace movement around the world." Of course, Benn was too polite to mention those teensy-weensy little invasions of ...
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Powell’s Presentation
Wed, Feb 5, 2003 at 9:12:08 am PST
And there it is, folks; if anyone remains unconvinced after Colin Powell’s speech, I submit with all due respect that they are damned fools. The satellite photos and communication intercepts were unambiguous evidence of Iraqi deception, and Powell showed evidence Iraq still possesses enough chem/bio agents to kill millions of ...
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They’re Laughing at Us
Wed, Feb 5, 2003 at 1:17:23 am PST
Last November the wife of a September 11 terror suspect was quietly given a passport and transit out of the United States by the Saudi Arabian embassy—even though she was under a subpoena. A law enforcement official said prosecutors and FBI agents were stunned to learn that Maha Marri had ...
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Benn Slobbers on Saddam
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 4:09:47 pm PST
So many idiotarians, so few Fiskies. Today’s early candidate for the year’s most willfully obtuse, blindly naive useful idiot is British Labour politician Tony Benn, who travelled to Baghdad for a fireside chat with a mass-murdering psychopath, and begged him to help the cause of world peace. Unbe-freakin'-lievable. And I ...
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The Sovereignty Con
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 2:25:47 pm PST
In this op-ed for the New York Post, brilliant military historian Ralph Peters proposes a radical new concept of national sovereignty to replace the travesty known as the United Nations: The Sovereignty Con. At the beginning of a new century, the United States needs to revolutionize international relations. The Bush ...
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France No Longer an Ally
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 1:43:43 pm PST
France has not been behaving like an ally for a long time, and at LGF we haven’t been shy about pointing this out. But it’s potentially earthshaking that Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon’s Policy Advisory Board, is now saying the same thing. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- France is ...
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Hitchens is Brainwashed
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 12:59:07 pm PST
Here’s a fascinating interview at the new online magazine Brainwash: Q&A With Christopher Hitchens. (Hat tip: ploome.) Recently, Jack Straw, the British foreign minister, said that he thinks war has become less likely in recent weeks.I’ll eat socks if they don’t go in. I think Straw might find out they’ve ...
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Saddam Calls a Friend
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 12:20:18 pm PST
James S. Robbins has written such terrific sober analyses of the Iraq situation that it’s kind of surprising to find out he can also be funny: Considering Exile. Hello?Idi, it's Saddam.Hey man, how are you?Pretty good. You?Can't complain.Did you hear? I got reelected.Yeah, unanimous vote. I never came close to ...
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Canada’s Amiri Baraka
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 11:01:36 am PST
The latest eruption of anti-Israel venom from the Toronto Globe and Mail is this poem from their issue of February 1 entitled “The Angel Ariel,” which they published under the headline Poetic Justice. (Hat tip: CastorOil.) The Angel ArielWhat happened to that U.S. scheme To bring to heel their Gulf ...
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Where the Men Are Men
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 10:18:57 am PST
This is not what it looks like. A Palestinian man tries to stuff a sheep inside the trunk of his car after buying it at the sheep market in Deir al-Balah in Gaza Strip February 4, 2003. Muslims all over the world will celebrate the religious holiday of Eid al-Adha ...
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INS Gets At Least 6
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 8:54:39 am PST
According to the Washington Times, the new INS registration requirements for male visitors from Muslim countries have resulted in the arrest of at least six terror suspects. "Yes, there are some terror suspects among the 400-plus ... we have detained during this process," Justice Department spokesman Jorge Martinez confirmed. "But ...
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Business As Usual?
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 8:40:08 am PST
Kuwaiti Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Sabah, on orders from religious higher-ups, is making the rounds of Kuwait’s mosques, politely asking the imams to knock off the jihad sermons. For now, anyway. Islam is the state religion of Kuwait and on Sunday the minister wanted to know why the imams ...
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Counting Mosques
Tue, Feb 4, 2003 at 8:15:37 am PST
Daniel Pipes points out a major problem with the way our government is pursuing the search for Islamic militants in the US: Counting Mosques. When President Bush states that "Islam is peace" and refers to "the peaceful teachings of Islam," how can his law-enforcement or immigration staff acknowledge that Islam ...
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Iranian Students vs. The EUroweenies
Mon, Feb 3, 2003 at 6:19:46 pm PST
The Movement of Iranian Students has a warning for the European Union. (Hat tip: Jim.) That group of European policy-makers who for a long time have been busy profiting from poverty, suffering, torture, and death must know that the great Iranian nation, in a not-so-distant future, will uproot the vile ...
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They Must Have Known
Mon, Feb 3, 2003 at 5:45:02 pm PST
Israel’s Maariv news service web site is running an astonishing image; their story is that it was captured from a TV show in which Ilan Ramon spoke with Ariel Sharon from the space shuttle Columbia. When the camera was pointed out the shuttle window, the left wing was clearly visible—with ...
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Why We Should Go To War
Mon, Feb 3, 2003 at 3:03:14 pm PST
That ungodly creaking, groaning sound you hear is an al-Guardian idiotarian slowly, with great pain and struggle and a few residual anti-American burps and farts, figuring out that we should go to war. In the mode of Basil Fawlty, I've tried not to mention the war. I know that Guardian ...
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Muslim Gloatfest UK
Mon, Feb 3, 2003 at 2:51:10 pm PST
The poster boy for Evil Radical Islam, hook-handed Sheikh Abu Hamza, is the latest representative of the Religion of Peace to weigh in on the Columbia disaster: Hamza: 'Disaster was sign from God'. He said British Muslims would take the shuttle disaster as a "sign from God" that the first ...
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Americans Against Terrorism
Mon, Feb 3, 2003 at 2:21:03 pm PST
Joshua Sharf emailed to let LGF know that Americans Against Terrorism will be holding an anti-Saddam Hussein rally in Denver Colorado, on Sunday February 16 at the Colorado state Capitol. Full details are at his site.
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ClearGuidance Still Raving
Mon, Feb 3, 2003 at 10:16:25 am PST
John Hawkins visited the bloodthirsty little Islamic tykes at the ClearGuidance discussion forum (yes, it’s back online again) to see how they felt about the Columbia disaster: Allah Has Made Sure That His Footsteps Never Touched The Ground Ever Again.
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Islamic Encounters
Mon, Feb 3, 2003 at 10:01:24 am PST
Bat Yeor writes about the continuing efforts by various Muslim front groups and academics to whitewash the image of militant Islam and the jihad ideology: Islamic Encounters. Over the last three decades, the West has been flooded by misleading books on Islam. Concealing the complexities inherent to an accurate portrayal ...
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Powell Promises Proof
Mon, Feb 3, 2003 at 8:30:54 am PST
Colin Powell pledged today to provide “straightforward, sober and compelling” proof that Iraq is hiding banned weapons. At this point the US could produce a photograph of Saddam Hussein holding a vial labeled “Grade A Certified Iraqi Anthrax” and it wouldn’t change a thing. But it’s nice to see Hans Blix and ...
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Schwartz on C-SPAN
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 at 5:16:30 pm PST
Stephen Schwartz is wrong when he denies the existence of dhimmitude, but he’s right about a lot of other things—especially when he talks about the corrupting influence of Saudi Wahhabism on worldwide Islam—and he’s being interviewed on C-SPAN right now: Watch LIVE.
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The Crew
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 at 4:14:09 pm PST
NASA says that remains from all seven Columbia astronauts have been found.
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Ah, Those Principled Europeans
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 at 3:52:36 pm PST
Hey, look; Thomas Friedman wants to jump on the EUro-skewering bandwagon. Do we have room for one more? BRUSSELS -- Last week I went to lunch at the Hotel Schweizerhof in Davos, Switzerland, and discovered why America and Europe are at odds. At the bottom of the lunch menu was ...
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Dracula vs. The Flying Ja'far
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 at 2:22:00 pm PST
Plumbing new depths of lunacy last Friday at the Mother of All Battles Mosque in Baghdad, Sheikh Dr. Abd Al-Latif Humaym (he’s a Sheikh and a Doctor!) related the touching story of the Flying Ja'far, a Mohammedan warrior whose arms were cut off in a battle with the Byzantines, and ...
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Arab Gloatfest 2003
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 at 1:29:43 pm PST
The first big-name Arab freakazoid to come out in full gloat mode is none other than Jean Chrétien’s buddy Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Hizb'Allah terror gang: Columbia blast shows U.S. not a 'god'. BEIRUT, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The head of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas said on Sunday the ...
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Religion of Peace Constructs a Narrative
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 at 10:14:59 am PST
Yasser Arafat and his main mouthpiece Saeb Erekat were quick to express their “condolences” for the Columbia disaster. They even bit their tongues and refrained from bringing up the “Isra-ay-lee occupation” for possibly the first time on record, which must have been a real internal intifada for them. I spit on ...
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The USS Liberty: Case Closed
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 at 8:49:44 am PST
Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty during the Six Day War has been a central fixation of the anti-Semitic idiotarian crowd for decades. In an utterly definitive refutation based on recently declassified US and Israeli sources, Michael B. Oren examines the historical record in minute detail and proves beyond a ...
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Martin Gilbert on Book TV
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 at 8:13:21 am PST
British historian Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill, will be the subject of an in-depth three hour interview on C-SPAN’s Book TV today at 9 am Pacific Standard Time. Gilbert is one of the world’s foremost authorities on World War II and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and ...
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An Empty Helmet in a Texas Field
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 7:14:57 pm PST
The most poignant photograph from a very sad day.
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Mark Steyn on the Columbia Disaster
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 5:44:07 pm PST
Mark Steyn’s tribute to the Columbia astronauts and the American spirit: Americans are tougher about these things now. Thank you, Mark.
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Early Indications
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 5:28:24 pm PST
The problems started on Columbia’s left wing, the wing that was struck by a piece of insulating foam that peeled off the external fuel tank during liftoff.
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Fallen Star
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 3:47:12 pm PST
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Iraqis Rejoice
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 3:04:40 pm PST
The Iraqis pay tribute to a bloodthirsty God, exulting in the loss of the shuttle Columbia: Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Immediate popular reaction in Baghdad on Saturday to the loss of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew -- including the first ...
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CBC Ignorance on Display
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 2:12:06 pm PST
A belligerently ignorant CBC interviewer goes one on one with Daniel Pipes in this Real Player audio clip: York and Campus Watch.
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Saddam’s Bodyguard Speaks
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 1:37:58 pm PST
The Melbourne Herald Sun reports that one of Saddam’s personal bodyguards has fled Iraq, and is spilling his guts to Israeli intelligence: Saddam's bodyguard warns of secret arsenal. (Hat tip: James.) Abu Hamdi Mahmoud has provided Israeli intelligence with a list of sites that the inspectors have not visited. They ...
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The Spirit Will Be Free
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 11:40:19 am PST
On his voyage, astronaut Ilan Ramon carried this drawing by Petr Ginz, a 14-year old Jewish boy who was killed in Auschwitz, showing the Earth as viewed from the surface of the moon.
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High Flight
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 9:16:05 am PST
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds -- and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of -- Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind ...
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Space Shuttle Disaster
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 7:45:34 am PST
What awful news to wake up to: Space Shuttle Apparently Disintegrates.
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"Progressives" In Love with Murder
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 2:29:27 am PST
South African Indymedia troglodytes come out on the side of suicidal mass murder; this sick image was posted as a comment in a typically ugly thread called The Racist Irony of Zionism. (Hat tip: In Context.)
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France is No Eurowimp
Sat, Feb 1, 2003 at 2:09:44 am PST
Mark Steyn says the cheese eating surrender monkey paradigm is insufficient; modern France has no compunctions about using military force when it’s in their interest. If you want to go monkey fishing, there's certainly no shortage of Eurowimps: Since the unpleasantness of 60 years ago, the Germans have become as ...
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